But the spoils that Team Europe shared Sunday night on the team bus after claiming the 20th Solheim Cup were delivered with some remarkable snark. A day after a viral video of U.S. captain Angela Stanford handing out celebratory drinks to her team on Saturday night, European Solheim Cup legend Laura Davies handed out libations to her side, with the players adding this impressive retort. Take a listen:

“They drink on Saturday. We drink on Sunday.” Quite the chef’s kiss.

making a 90-foot putt on 17 then another from outside 25 feet on 18 for her and Lindy Duncan to top Carlota Ciganda and Celine Boutier. It was significant because it pulled the Solheim Cup matches into a tie at 8 after two days. Shortly after, singles matchups were released and Ciganda, playing in her eighth Cup, saw her opponent: Jennifer Kupcho.

“I was really happy to see that I was playing against Kupcho,” Ciganda said. “She's a fighter, I'm a fighter, and I told her, ‘look, great playing.’ I mean, even yesterday what she did was amazing on 17 and 18. But today I knew she had no chance. I was like, I want to kill you. So I had it very clear in my mind, and I was, like, I'm just going to do this for the team, for Anna [Nordqvist], for all the captains.”

After losing the Cup to Europe 15-13, Stanford expressed that the greens were unexpectedly slow—at least compared to what she expected.

“Even when we showed up in July here, they were faster. And I don't think it had anything to do with the rain either,” Stanford said. “Now, saying that, it's my responsibility to get the team ready. This is the one thing I am kicking myself is that I just didn't keep pushing, you know, we got to figure out how to hit our putts a little bit harder, which is really difficult, to change the way you putt.”

She said her team wasn’t complaining. Jennifer Kupcho made a 91-foot putt on 17 and a 26-foot putt on 18 on Saturday to pull the competition all square heading into Sunday singles. But Stanford said she blamed herself for not being in her players’ ears more, reminding them that the greens were slower than they were used to and that they needed to get the ball to the hole. Though clearly feeling less than thrilled about the greens and disappointed her team isn’t taking the Cup home, Stanford leaves the Netherlands knowing that the overarching goal of the event was achieved.

“Anna [Nordqvist, Europe’s captain] and I agree, if we got to the end of the week and women's golf grew just a little bit more, then we did our jobs,” Stanford said.

Lottie Woad had the winning putt because Carlota Ciganda was guaranteed a half point in her match behind. Charley Hull got things started, Linn Grant came next to end the week a perfect 4-0 and the blue wave followed at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands. Here is a look at final records for each player this week.

EUROPE: Celine Boutier 0-4, Carlota Ciganda 1-1-1, Linn Grant 4-0, Esther Henseleit 2-1, Charley Hull 1-3-1, Nanna Koerstz Madsen 1-2, Leona Maguire 2-2, Nastasia Nadaud 3-1, Julia Lopez Ramirez 1-0-1, Mimi Rhodes 2-1, Maja Stark 3-1, Lottie Woad 1-3-1.

UNITED STATES: Allisen Corpuz 1-3, Lauren Coughlin 3-1-1, Lindy Duncan 2-1, Nelly Korda 2-1-1, Megan Khang 1-2, Auston Kim 1-3, Jennifer Kupcho 1-3, Alison Lee 4-0, Andrea Lee 1-3, Yealimi Noh 1-1-1, Angel Yin 0-1-1, Rose Zhang 2-2.

The 22-year-old Englishwoman’s short par putt ended her match against Auston Kim to win 2 and 1, getting Europe to 14 points. With Carola Ciganda 3 up on Jennifer Kupcho with three to play, Europe was guaranteed to earn the half point it needed to win the Cup. Woad took her time over the putt, even though she didn’t know that if she made it, Europe would win. “I didn't know it was to win. I thought Carlota's match was for it to win,” Woad said afterward.

It was the first full point Woad scored at the 2026 Solheim Cup. “I was pretty disappointed,” Woad said, who’s ranked No. 7 in the world. “Felt like I was playing good golf and not getting the points and felt like I was kind of letting everyone down.” She finished the week 1-3-1. But after that clinching point, she’s not feeling like she let anyone down.

making seven birdies en route to defeating Europe’s Mimi Rhodes on Sunday at the Solheim Cup. Her 4-and-2 victory marks her first singles victory since 2021. She lost in 2023 to Carlota Ciganda and in 2024 to Charley Hull. The point pulled the competition to a tie at 10 points each. But behind Korda is a block of blue: Europe leads the four matches directly following her. It’s the Solheim Cup, so anything is possible. But as Korda heads out to cheer on her teammates, the advantage is toward Europe. Korda will go home with a 2-1-1 record from the Netherlands.

which was quite a shift from how she fared the rest of the week. Hull was chosen to go out first by captain Anna Nordqvist and the strategy worked. Hull beat Megan Khang 3 and 2 for her first full point of the week. The Solheim veteran, playing in her eighth Cup, was paired with rookie Lottie Woad four times the first two days and Hull had just a half point to show for it. In all instances where a pair was paired together four times, Hull and Woad are the only ones who didn’t earn at least a full point. But Hull did what she needed to do in kick-starting Europe.

“It's been a frustrating week,” Hull said. “Me and Lottie played pretty well, and we just can't hole a putt. We played against some tough opponents. But feels good to get on the board. There's a lot of blue on there at the minute, so I'll go out and watch.”

Europe was winning seven matches when Hull putted out on the 16th hole at Bernardus Golf Club. They only need 6½ points to win the Cup.

With the late U.S. win in Saturday fourball on the strength of Jennifer Kupcho’s incredible putting, the U.S. forged an 8-8 tie with Europe, and the 12 players will now go head-to-head in singles to decide who holds the Cup. As the defending champions, the Americans need six points to at least earn a tie and retain the trophy.

The pairings have been established, and in the very first match, Europe’s top-ranked player, Charley Hull, who is winless this week, will take on American sparkplug Megan Khang. The anchor 12th match, if it were to come down to the end, pits Rose Zhang against Celine Boutier.

U.S captain Angela Stanford slotted World No. 1 Nelly Korda in the No. 4 spot and she will take on Mimi Rhodes. And for the most fiery matchup? That one’s easy. Kupcho against Europe stalwart Carlota Ciganda in the penultimate pairing. It'd be tremendous theater if they could go the distance. 

Cameras caught "Aunty Nelly" happily being a “babysitter” on the first tee as the group introductions were made. To which one poster replied, "Maybe you could actually get her on the golf course." But benching herself on Day 2 is a standard procedure for the American star, who has now played only one best-ball match in each of her five appearances for Team USA. The strategy would seem to be that Korda, 27, gets some rest before singles. That has worked at a 50-percent clip. She won singles in her first two appearances, but has lost the last two, including a 6-and-4 rout at the hands of Charley Hull in 2024. Most impressive has been the grit shown by American Lauren Coughlin, who will play in five matches at the age of 33.

But the event is also doubling as a mini-training camp for the two Presidents Cup teams getting set to play at Medinah the following week. Three of Brandt Snedeker’s 12 charges will be competing—Justin Thomas, Jackson Koivun and Jacob Bridgeman—while five International players will tee it up (Nico Echavarria, Ryo Hisatsune, Corey Conners, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Nick Taylor). The event is taking place at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Asheville, N.C.

The 26-year-old Swede has holed out twice for eagle at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands. The first came in morning foursomes, playing with Linn Grant, when Stark chipped in for eagle on the short par 4 eighth hole, en route to defeating Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz, 3 and 2 and giving the powerful American duo its first loss in six starts together.

Then in her afternoon fourball match, again paired with Grant as they faced Megan Khang and Lauren Coughlin, Stark holed out from the fairway on the first hole to go 1-up instantly.

Lottie Woad is playing in her first Solheim Cup while Charley Hull is competing for the eighth time. Ranked seventh and eighth in the Rolex Ranking respectively, Woad and Hull are the highest-ranked players on Europe’s squad. Nordqvist put the two together for each of the three first matches. They lost foursomes 4 and 3 to Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz in the first match, tied Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin in Friday’s fourball, and then lost, 6 and 5, to Lauren Coughlin and Alison Lee in Saturday’s foursomes. Still, Nordqvist is keeping the pairing together and has sent them out together again Saturday afternoon. Woad and Hull are playing Noh and Andrea Lee in Saturday afternoon fourball. “I'm really proud that they fought and I see no reason why not to play them today,” Nordqvist said on Saturday before the completion of the morning match.